Your first job as an entrepreneur is to innovate

Package your innovation into a little product or service, then find customers who want to buy that package, then put a team together to deliver it, and then, once you’ve sold a few of your widgets you need the money to roll the project out fully

So you say "I really have what it takes to run a startup" and if this is true, you can come up with an innovation, package it and find customers for it almost from thin air.

Most of the time you’ll even be able to deliver what you sell without help. If are making something really big you might just get orders from paying customers instead.

Finding money before you have a going concern is always a mistake as you are just making the your prototype more expensive.

By making more expense you are usually creating debt for your business that will compound, or chaining yourself to investors who at some point will want to make a return and will decide to tell you how you are going to do that for them and this could be infuriating if you know your business better than the money holder.

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